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b'\\u201cThe entire state is burning.\\u201d That was the refrain Jack Healy, our national correspondent, kept hearing when he arrived in the fire zone in Oregon.\\n\\nThe scale of the wildfires is dizzying \\u2014 millions of acres have burned, 30 different blazes are raging and thousands of people have been displaced.\\n\\nDry conditions, exacerbated by climate change and combined with a windstorm, created the deadly tinderbox.\\n\\nThe disaster has proved a fertile ground for misinformation: Widely discredited rumors spread on social media claiming that antifa activists were setting fires and looting.\\n\\nToday, we hear from people living in the fire\\u2019s path who told Jack about the toll the flames had exacted.\\n\\nGuest: Jack Healy, a national correspondent for The New York Times.\\xa0\\n\\nFor more information on today\\u2019s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily\\xa0\\n\\nBackground reading:\\u201cThe long-term recovery is going to last years,\\u201d an emergency management director said as the fires left a humanitarian disaster in their wake.The fearmongering and false rumors that accompanied a tumultuous summer of protests in Oregon have become a volatile complication in the disaster.'